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3.00 Credits
Looks at the complex relationship between politics, public policy, and racial injustice and inequities in America and how this relationship has evolved over the years. Among the topics covered are:1) race, politics and American democracy, 2) race and racism as political phenomenon, 3) racial justice and political inclusion, and 4) researching politics, policy and racial justice.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of selected topics in contemporary African politics. Topics will vary. RESTRICTIONS: May be taken twice for credit when topics vary.
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3.00 - 9.00 Credits
Analysis of important themes in the study of African American and African diasporic culture and history in relationship to museums and histories of display. Topics may vary each time the course is offered. RESTRICTIONS: Open to juniors and seniors only. May be repeated for nine credits.
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3.00 Credits
Study of contemporary politics by country. Course is only taught abroad. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Black portraiture is everywhere--museum archives, the White House, the cover of Vanity Fair, and the University of Delaware. Looking to the past, present, and the University of Delaware's Paul R. Jones collection, you will examine the evolution and recent popularity of the black portrait. You will also investigate how artists of African descent have changed the conventions of portraiture and ideas about picturing the self. What do we expect a portrait to do? What is "black" about "the black portrait"? You will answer these and other questions in this seminar. PREREQ: At least one 100- or 200-level AFRA course.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces various colonial policies of the European powers in Africa, emphasizing the comparisons and contrasts among these policies. Attention paid to the effect of Colonialism on Africa's economic, social and political development.
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3.00 Credits
In this seminar, which bridges Art History and Africana Studies, students will study and construct a genealogy of African American Art. As a topic seminar, students will engage with a range of subjects foundational to the history of African-American art and examine art in a variety of forms and mediums. Examples of topics include: The Idea of Black Art, Black Art before the 20th century, The Place of Africa in African-American Art, Global-Local Art and African-Diaspora, among others. PREREQ: At least one of 200- or higher level courses in ARTH or AFRA.
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3.00 Credits
The complex and performative nature of museums vis-a-vis race, remembrance and reconciliation with a focus on Black American and African Diasporic history and culture. What role[s] do objects, history, and culture perform under such curatorial and museum mandates and visions? How do changing socio-political and cultural landscapes and challenges to representational politics shape museum practices? Considered here are black cultural institutions, their formation and foundation as well as exhibition histories of black visual art and culture. RESTRICTIONS: Open to juniors and seniors only.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar course examines the histories of enslaved flight, truancy, resistance, and refusal in the First State. While this course does center slavery and fugitive movement in and through Delaware, we will also necessarily examine the interconnected histories of Delaware's neighboring states - Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania - in an effort to best understand enslaved life in Delaware and the larger mid-Atlantic world of the Upper South. We will assess a wide range of historical sources including periodicals, state mandates, runaway slave advertisements, and slave narratives, in addition to assigned secondary literature. PREREQ: AFRA 304 or HIST 268.
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3.00 Credits
Thematic, collections-based study of African American collections and their digital curation. Includes the study of archival and theoretical challenges in making the collection and others like it available to the public through various curated platforms.
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